Match-box



N0 MODEL.

PATENTED JAN. 12, 1904. I

- H. A. DODGE.

MATCH BOX.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 19, 1903.

UNIT D STATES Patented January 12, 1904.

PATENT ()FFICE.

MATCH-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 749,539, dated January 12, 1904.

Application filed June 19,1903. Serial No. 162,236. (No model.)

made of cardboard and such as have been in extensive use for advertising purposes, the advertisements being usually printed on the matches themselves. I

My improved match-box .is of such form that it is well adapted for advertising purposes in that the advertisements may be placed or embossed in any suitable manner on the back and the lid thereof, and the matchbox is of such convenient and attractive form as to render it desirable to be retained permanently by the user and to be refilled by the packages of matches as often as the latter become exhausted.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved match-box in a closed condition. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same open and with a package of matches therein. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the improved match-box with a package of matches therein.

The improved match-box is preferably made of flexible sheet metal of any suitable kindas brass, tin, copper, or aluminiumthe latter metal being preferred for lightness and attractiveness. The body of the box comprises a back portion a, turned-up side lips b, a turned-up end lip c, integral with which latter is a holding-piece 0?, turned over, so as to partly overlie the package of matches 6, and which holding-piece d may be provided with an inturned lip f, arranged to engage a cardboard portion a, forming part of the match-package and which package is in practice provided with friction material suitable for scratching matches thereon for the purpose of igniting them. To permit of convenient access to this friction material, the holding-piece d is provided with an opening d.

come, as the packages of matches of the kind intended for reception by the box are somewhat thicker at the headed ends of the matches than at their opposite ends. The hinge of the lid is preferably provided with a spring h, which will tend to open the lid when the same is released from a holding catch or lug i, stamped up from the sheet metal in a well-known manner. a

' The turned-over holding-piece (Z is not attached at the sides of the box and is sufliciently flexible so that the packages of matches may be readily inserted beneath the same, and in breaking off the paper matches the said holding-piece may be pressed by thethumb of the user against the matches and will thus serve as a breaker against which the matches may be pulled in removing them separately from the package.

From the foregoing it will be understood that the invention provides a cheap and convenient match-box suitable for advertising purposes and adapted for the reception of packages of paper matches such as are now extensively in use and also provides convenient means whereby the matches may be removed separatclyfrom the packages and readily and conveniently ignited on the usual friction surfaces of the packages through the opening in the holding-piece (Z.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A match-box comprising a back having turned-up lips to afford side and end portions for the body of the box, and having, integral with the end portion, a turned-over holdingpiece adapted to partly overlie a package of matches, said holding-piece having its central portion open to provide an aperture through which the matches may be ignited on the W. friction material of the package, and said box being provided with a suitable hinged lid.

2. A match-box provided with a hinged lid at one endand being formed deeper at the end where the lid is hinged than at its oppos site end, so as to be adapted to hold a package of paper matches, and the said box having, at its end opposite the hinge of the lid, a holding-piecc, as (1, adapted to partly overlie a package of matches contained by the box,

said holding-piece having its central portion cut away to provide an opening through which the matches may be ignited on the friction material of the package.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HAROLD A. DODGE.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH F. JA UITH, B. H. MARsH. 

